You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. Thomas Wolfe More Quotes by Thomas Wolfe More Quotes From Thomas Wolfe Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. At any rate, that is how it seemed to young George Webber, who was never so assured of his purpose as when he was going somewhere on a train. And he never had the sense of home so much as when he felt that he was going there. It was only when he got there that his homelessness began. Thomas Wolfe purpose home america Only the dead know Brooklyn. Thomas Wolfe brooklyn knows Peace fell upon her spirit. Strong comfort and assurance bathed her whole being. Life was so solid and splendid, and so good. Thomas Wolfe strong spirit comfort A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested. Thomas Wolfe If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know. Thomas Wolfe If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded and has a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know. Thomas Wolfe It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved. Thomas Wolfe Le Corbusier was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only France loves wholeheartedly, the logician who flies higher and higher in ever-decreasing circles until, with one last, utterly inevitable induction, he disappears up his own fundamental aperture and emerges in the fourth dimension as a needle-thin umber bird. Thomas Wolfe The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened. Thomas Wolfe The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. Thomas Wolfe The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. Thomas Wolfe There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit. Thomas Wolfe We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past. Thomas Wolfe Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind. Thomas Wolfe think sick mind time One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years. Thomas Wolfe new five new-york years Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best. Thomas Wolfe longest last best death Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good. Thomas Wolfe good advertising business book
